A GANGSTER'S NERVE.
The underworld has never shown such calculated insolence to the police as in the latest gangster murder. The strangled body of Joe Weshefsky, a burglar, was found in a stolen motor car parked outside the door of the police headquarters at New York. The reason for the murder is a mystery. Weshefsky had been strangled by three strands of heavy twine knotted about the throat. His body had been stuffed into a coffee sack—and there it was found by one of the hundreds of' detectives who must have passed the atolen car jchile il--waa thea».
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 21, 26 January 1933, Page 14
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98A GANGSTER'S NERVE. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 21, 26 January 1933, Page 14
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